6:30 PM
to 8:23 PM

Strongman
18 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Stanless Steel can leg-press 10,000 pound dump trucks, drive nails through boards with just his bare hands, and can even bend a U.S. penny in his fingersÑa feat no one else in the world can accomplish. These are acts, he feels, not just of physical strength but of mental and emotional strengthÑdemonstrations of the kind of change possible through will-power and perseverance. Yet as Stan reaches middle age, career disappointments and difficult personal relationships begin to test these strengths and force him to struggle with the weaknesses around himÑincluding his own.
Befitting its subject's sense of integrity and artistic purity, Strongman uses a hard-core verite approach and applies it to a thoroughly modern story.

9:30 PM
to 10:51 PM

You Wont Miss Me
11 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three-year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital. Starring Stella Schnabel, featuring Rene Ricard and introducing other notable New York personalities, the film gives pathos to the frenzy of the youthful desire for acceptance.
Shot in a variety of styles and formats, YOU WONT MISS ME mixes non-actors with professionals, verité with staging, order with abstraction, to paint an evocative picture of a contemporary rebel.
 

 

11:30 AM
to 12:39 PM

The Time of Their Lives
20 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  With a combined age of almost 300, Hetty, Rose and Alison love to share their impassioned concerns on everything from terrorism and global warming to sex, death and the meaning of life. But despite their unstoppable enthusiasm and disarming humour, all three women are not simply ready for death Ð they actively want to die.At the end of lives lived with passion and purpose, Hetty, Rose and Alison bring to the screen a rare perspective on old age. Surprising, poignant and at times very funny, The Time of Their Lives reveals the everyday mystery of how very old people experience life and the effects of age on their sense of identity and worth. Like first-hand witnesses who have gone ahead and report back from the edge of their own mortality, they tell us things of which no-one ever speaks.

1:45 PM
to 3:40 PM

Daytime Drinking
19 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  After Hyuk-Jin gets dumped, he hangs around in a bar with his friends. Totally drunk, they decide to travel to console his broken heart.
Next day, Hyuk-Jin arrives at the destination but he finds out he is alone because his friends can't come due to a terrible hangover.
He encounters with strange couple and gets invited for a drink. Next morning, he opens his eyes on the middle of snowy way without his cell phone and wallet as well as his pants. A kind but somewhat weird driver offers him a drive and a drink again.
Now Hyuk-jin has to find a way to get out of the world's worst hangover and to end his drunken odyssey.

5:15 PM
to 6:40 PM

All Tomorrow's Parties
55 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  In an out-of-season holiday camp on the coast of England, cult music festival All Tomorrow's Parties serves up a heady combination of alternative music, crazy golf and chalet-living; all curated by a single band or artist.
This post-punk DIY bricolage uses material generated by the fans and musicians themselves, on a multitude of formats including Super8, camcorder and mobile phone material, over the history of the festival, tocapture the uncompromising spirit of a parallel music universe.

7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM

American Boy
12 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Scorsese and friends are entertained by Steven Prince's stories about his middle-class Jewish childhood, his experience with drugs and guns, and his relationship with his father.

7:30 PM
to 8:22 PM

American Prince
14 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  In 1978, Director, Martin Scorsese turned his cameras on his friend, Steven Prince. Best known for his role as the gun salesman in Taxi Driver, Steven was a true-life raconteur, an actor, an ex-drug addict, and road manager for Neil Diamond, Steven's life was to Scorsese more fascinating than what any screenwriter could dream up. The documentary that emerged, "American Boy"was to become one of Scorsese most compelling, but often overlooked projects.
Now three decades later and in a new setting, Steven Prince recounts his days since American Boy and tells why he turned his back on the entertainment industry. Still, as he composes his latest chapter, his ability to grip an audience remains. From placating construction boss to rock-star-girlfriend pacifier; concrete bunker builder to Cannes festival guest, Steven, the American Boy, extends the epic, as the American Prince.
American Boy will be screened immediately following American Prince.

11:30 PM
to 1:25 AM

Black
19 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  When his Parisian armored car holdup goes horribly awry, our protagonist 'Black' needs to go on the lam. News from his cousin in Senegal about a stash of uncut diamonds in a poorly guarded bank in Dakar hatches the plan to go on a 'working vacation' that involves a little sightseeing and a lot of mayhem. Genre fans know underground French MC Jean Gab'1 as a villain in District B-13, but with BLACK, he take center stage and delivers a nouveau-blacksploitation adventure awash in, black magic, African mysticism, mutant arms dealers, gargantuan machete-wielding mercenary armies and a truckload of knuckle-sandwiches.
 

 

11:00 AM
to 12:20 PM

Motherland
7 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Six diverse and remarkable women, each grieving the loss of a child, travel to rural South Africa to work as volunteers in an effort to find some positive meaning in the wake of their tragedies. The group, strangers to each other before the trip began but bound by the painful experience they share, contribute to and learn from a culture that deals with mourning in a way very different from what they're accustomed to in America. For 17 days on the other side of the world, these women cry and laugh, grieve and celebrate, and talk more openly than ever before about the kids they adored. And for the first time since their children's deaths, together in the Motherland, each woman finds hope and healing in the company of others who truly understand her experience.

1:30 PM
to 2:58 PM

True Adolescents
15 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Meet Sam Bryant (Mark Duplass of The Puffy Chair and Humpday). He's an aging Seattle rocker with no job, no record deal, and no place to stay until he finds some room at his aunt's house in the suburbs. He's also the last guy anyone would pick to take two teens camping for some quality dude time. Written and directed by Craig Johnson, marking his feature directorial debut, TRUE ADOLESCENTS is a warm and spirited coming of age story that also stars newcomers Brett Loehr and Carr Thompson, and Academy-Award nominee Melissa Leo (Frozen River).

4:00 PM
to 5:13 PM

Sons of a Gun
9 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Lance, Craig, and Ubaldo live with schizophrenia. They also live with Larry, their alcoholic caretaker/"dad". And even though they aren't related by blood, they've lived together as a family for 20 years. Through intimate access to this unique family, the documentary SONS OF A GUN follows them as they get evicted, move into a cramped motel room, joke around, and scramble to find a new home before their family self-destructs.

6:15 PM
to 7:39 PM

Bomber
23 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  A bittersweet comedy about love, family and dropping bombs on Germany. Lovelorn son Ross finds himself trapped in a nightmare road-trip with his parents when he agrees to drive his 83 year old father to Germany, so that the old man can apologize to a village he accidentally bombed during the war.

8:45 PM
to 10:10 PM

Burma VJ
15 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Armed with small handy cams, undercover Video Journalists in Burma keep up the flow of news from their closed country despite risking torture and life in jail. Their material is smuggled out of Burma and broadcast back via satellite. 'Joshua', age 27, becomes tactical leader of a group of reporters, as Buddhist monks in September 2007 lead a massive uprising. Foreign TV crews are banned from the country, so it's left to Joshua and his crew to keep the revolution alive on TV screens all over. As government intelligence understands the power of the camera, the VJs become their prime target.

11:59 PM
to 1:50 AM

Ong Bak 2
32 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  The first ONG BAK hit the world like a heat-seeking guided missile. A missile in the shape of Tony Jaa, touted as the new Bruce Lee and the can't-miss martial-arts superstar of his generation. This prequel, set in medieval Thailand, features Jaa as a young nobleman who masters many martial arts disciplines in his journey of revenge. Expect stand-up-in-your-seat excitement as Jaa flies through the air; twisting, turning and demonstrating the utmost contempt for the laws of gravity. And now that he has added a full range of martial-arts styles to his repertoire, Jaa is twice as deadly and twice as exciting.
 

 

11:30 AM
to 12:56 PM

Made In China
23 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Slinkys, Pet Rocks, Ant FarmsÉbehind each of those great novelties is the story of a great Novelty Inventor. 'Made In China' is the story of one such inventor. Johnson, a self-styled novelty inventor from a small town in East Texas, is determined to bring his big idea Ð "a humorous domestic hygiene product" - to the world. Johnson's journey takes him to the Mecca of the novelty world: China, where anything is possible and everything has its price. Lost in the backstreets of Shanghai, Johnson discovers that it takes more than a million dollar idea to make it to the big time. It takes guts, determination, and a fist full of sneezing powder.

2:00 PM
to 3:18 PM

TRIMPIN: the sound of invention
23 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INVENTION is an amusing journey through the musical world of an eccentric creative genius.
Artist/inventor/engineer/composer Trimpin has never been represented by a gallery, a dealer, or a manager, and doesn't have a cellphone or a website Ð yet his freewheeling sculptures and outrageous musical experiments are cherished by artists, musicians, and museums all over the planet.
Filmed over the course of two years, this feature doc shows the iconoclastic artist:- building a 60-foot tower of self-tuning, automatic electric guitars; - experimenting with the Kronos Quartet on a variety of toy and electronic instruments; - designing a perpetual motion sculpture in a glass foundry; - creating a giant marimba ensemble that converts real-time earthquake data into music;and always in the midst of inventing wild sonic and kinetic gizmos.
An exploration of a creative genius whose self-made world resembles both Santa's workshop and Frankenstein's lab, TRIMPIN: THE SOUND OF INVENTION will delight anyone interested in the mysteries, pitfalls, and sheer joys of creative experiment.

4:30 PM
to 5:58 PM

Breaking Upwards
22 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  'Breaking Upwards' follows a young New York couple who, after four years together, have grown stifled. Desperate to escape their ennui, but fearful of life apart, they decide to intricately strategize their own break up. The film blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction by casting real life couple (and filmmakers) Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones as themselves. Together they explore alternatives to monogamy, inventing rules and boundaries in an effort to avoid pain. An uncensored look at young love, lust, and the pangs of codependency, 'Breaking Upwards' follows its characters as they navigate each others' emotions across the city they love. It begs the question: is it ever possible to grow apart together?

7:30 PM
to 9:16 PM

Afterschool
8 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Robert is 16-years-old. His coming of age is interrupted when he witnesses the death by overdose of a pair of Twins in his high school hallway. His troubles and insecurities seem insignificant in comparison to this tragic event; and yet as the school continues to hold memorials and instills an extreme zero-tolerance anti- drug policy, Robert can't help but feel more and more distant from the tragedy.

11:30 PM
to 1:04 AM

The Horseman
13 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  The Horseman is the feature-length debut from 26 year old Australian director Steve Kastrissios. This raw, action-filled revenge drama, which received awards for both Best Australian Film and Best Australian Director at the 2008 Melbourne Underground Film Festival, signals the emergence of a serious new talent. The Horseman tells the story of Christian Forteski (played by veteran Australian actor Peter Marshall) whose drug addicted daughter dies after appearing in an amateur porn video. Christian deals with his grief by burning, kicking, smashing and stabbing his way through the network of pornographers involved in the video. The Horseman is a lean, tight film that boils down the revenge formula to its most essential, time-tested elements: an engaging story, interesting characters, and a powerful dose of skull-pounding violence
 

 

1:30 PM
to 3:02 PM

Severe Clear
7 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Severe Clear is based on the memoir by First Lieutenant Mike Scotti as well as video footage shot by him and other members of 1st Battalion, 4th Marines on the outset of the 2003 invasion of Iraqi. Through their cameras we see the raw sounds of war, capturing the harrowing three hundred mile charge to Baghdad through hostile enemy territory. The footage used to create Severe Clear was never shot for the purpose of making a movie. In this digital age of embedded reporters, the film truly strips the barriers between audience and soldier, personalizing the fear, moral conundrum and adrenaline rush of life on the battlefield. Severe Clear offers an unflinching look at the uncertainty, disorder and chaos of war from the remarkable perspective of one Marine.

4:00 PM
to 5:30 PM

MINE
9 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  MINE is a feature-length, independent documentary about the essential bond between humans and animals, set against the backdrop of one of the worst natural disasters in modern U.S. history: Hurricane Katrina. This gripping, character-driven story follows New Orleans residents as they attempt the daunting task of trying to reunite with their pets who have been adopted by families all over the country, and chronicles the custody battles that arise when two families love the same pet. Who determines the fate of the animals - and the people - involved? A compelling meditation on race, class and the power of compassion, MINE examines how we treat animals as an extension of how we view and treat each other.

6:30 PM
to 7:36 PM

The Last Beekeeper
25 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  'Have you ever seen a lazy bee?' asks beekeeper Jim Robertson. Bees have worked tirelessly for man for centuries. But now they are vanishing. Wrangling with the enormity of this loss, 'The Last Beekeeper' follows the lives of three commercial beekeepers (form South carolina, Montana, and Washington) over the course of one year as they struggle with Colony Collapse Disorder. As they all take their bees to California's enormous annual almond pollination (an event so large it requires the presence of the majority of bees in the US) it becomes painfully and poignantly clear the bind that they are in. 'If all the bees die, what do you have to live for?' asks Matt Hutchens . It's not just a question for the beekeepers, it's a question for all of us.

8:30 PM
to 10:00 PM

Intangible Asset Number 82
18 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  When Australian drummer Simon Barker hears a rare recording of Korean shaman Kim Seok-Chul - a grand master in his seventies playing with immense energy and complex technique Ð he knows immediately he must find and learn from the enigmatic shaman officially recognized as South Korea's 82nd Intangible Asset.Undeterred by years of setbacks and obstacles, and with the elusive Kim Seok-Chul now in his eighties, Simon returns to Korea for a seventeenth time. The journey becomes a rite of passage, as meaningful encounters with engaging and exotic characters prepare Simon for a fortuitous meeting with the shaman.Personal transformations result, and Simon and the artists who have become immersed in his search move naturally to collaboration, a testimony to the universal language of music.

11:30 PM
to 1:04 AM

The Horseman
33 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  The Horseman is the feature-length debut from 26 year old Australian director Steve Kastrissios. This raw, action-filled revenge drama, which received awards for both Best Australian Film and Best Australian Director at the 2008 Melbourne Underground Film Festival, signals the emergence of a serious new talent. The Horseman tells the story of Christian Forteski (played by veteran Australian actor Peter Marshall) whose drug addicted daughter dies after appearing in an amateur porn video. Christian deals with his grief by burning, kicking, smashing and stabbing his way through the network of pornographers involved in the video. The Horseman is a lean, tight film that boils down the revenge formula to its most essential, time-tested elements: an engaging story, interesting characters, and a powerful dose of skull-pounding violence
 

 

11:45 AM
to 1:30 PM

Awaydays
9 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Paul Carty is 19, good-looking, funny, clever Ð and bored out of his mind. His mother died a year ago. He lives in middle class suburbia with his silently grieving father and feisty young sister, Molly. Carty works as a junior civil servant and spends all his wages on clubs, records, football and gigs. It's at a Bunnymen gig that he meets Elvis. Elvis changes everything.
He's part of a gang called The Pack. The Pack are notorious; they dress in a cultish, almost effeminate style that's at odds with the boneheads and bootboys they fight against. They have androgynous wedge haircuts worn with Fred Perry shirts, Lois jeans and Adidas Forest Hills training shoes. For as long as he has been going to football, Carty has been fascinated by The Pack. Now Elvis seems to be offering him a way in.
Except he isn't. For all that Carty lionises The Pack, Elvis dilutes his idealism. He warns Carty that these lads are nobodies. Elvis is a council estate romantic, a dreamer with big plans about escaping to Berlin, New York, anywhereÉ Anywhere, so long as Carty comes with him. He's been waiting all his life for someone like Carty, someone he can talk with and relate to about art, music, poetry...suicide. They love the same bands - Magazine, Joy Division, Wire - and think the same way; or so Elvis wants to believe. He's smitten with his new mate and plans the big journeys they'll make together.
But Carty soon gets to know the 'other' Elvis - moody, fatalistic and possessive. He throws as many obstacles as he can in Carty's path, whenever he fears he's losing him. Elvis is all too well aware how badly Carty craves the Pack lifestyle, and tries to keep him away - but in spite of all his warnings, Carty's on a collision course, plunging deeper into their dark and vicious world. Elvis can see how Carty's fascination is blinding him, yet he's powerless to pull him back from the brink. Once he's been on his first awayday and sampled the buzz of random violence, Carty just wants more, more, more...
But Carty is never truly accepted by the gang. He's there on sufferance, simply because his sponsor, the psychotic yet enigmatic Elvis is so revered. Their conflict reaches its crisis as Carty tries harder and harder to impress the wild boys, while Elvis sinks deeper into paranoia and jealousy. Something has to break.

2:30 PM
to 4:16 PM

Afterschool
15 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Robert is 16-years-old. His coming of age is interrupted when he witnesses the death by overdose of a pair of Twins in his high school hallway. His troubles and insecurities seem insignificant in comparison to this tragic event; and yet as the school continues to hold memorials and instills an extreme zero-tolerance anti- drug policy, Robert can't help but feel more and more distant from the tragedy.

5:00 PM
to 6:30 PM

Austin School of Film presents: Youth MAFIA
2 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Considered one of the most popular and anticipated youth events hosted by a major film festival in the United States, the 4th Annual Austin School of Film Youth M.A.F.I.A. Day Film Festival & Screening during SXSW Film will be held Saturday, March 14th - Sunday, March 15th at Connally High School from 10am-10am (24 hours). Filmmakers, ages 14-19, get into groups of four and have only 24 hours to write a script, shoot, and edit a five-minute short according to set guidelines. Austin School of Film teachers and mentors, editing equipment, meals, and drinks will be provided. Each team must bring their own DV camera. FREE. Only a limited number of students will be allowed, and it's on a first come first serve basis. All you have to do is send in your contact information (every student must send in their own information) to Monica at monica@austinfilmschool.org. Make sure you include your name, e-mail, and cell/home phone number(s). As the film festival approaches, you will receive further information about rules and recommended pre-registration dates.

7:30 PM
to 7:37 PM

Alexander Family Farm
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Kim Alexander lives as close to the city as you can get and still be country. The furthest an egg travels from his farm is 30 miles, a distance unheard of in our global food economy. Though a staple in American diets, the origins of our eggs can be a mystery.

7:30 PM
to 7:36 PM

Casimiro
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Casimiro is the story of an illegal immigrant living in central Texas. As we follow him throughout his daily routine we realize the difficulties, both physical and emotional he is forced to confront. Casimiro begins his day trying to write an encouraging and positive letter to his family back in his homeland. As the day progresses, we can experience that the American dream Casimiro was after has resulted in a much more difficult journey, one which he has to overcome alone. His solitude and inability to adapt to a strange world ultimately create a distance between Casimiro and his family, one that goes beyond the physical boundaries of countries and cultures.

7:30 PM
to 7:38 PM

Coffee
2 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  COFFEE is about Sara, a woman whose relationship has fallen apart. She is waking up on this particular morning to a disheveled house, half packed in boxes. Going about her morning in a daze, Sara allows innocuous little things to affect her. When it's time for a sincere reaction to her surroundings, she simply feels numb. Coffee might help.

7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM

Entre Lineas (Between the Lines)
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  "Entre Lineas" is a story about two friends that live on different sides of the Mexican-American border. As we follow Caroline and Ricardo we get a close look at the lifestyle of Mexican and Mexican-Americans and the universal struggle to maintain and find our own identities in a multicultural society.

7:30 PM
to 9:00 PM

Jack & Holly
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Jack and Holly are a young couple who struggle as hard economic times put pressure on their relationship.

7:30 PM
to 7:42 PM

Love, Sadie
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Sadie and her high-school friends struggle to escape the banality of everyday life through the intimate exchange of handwritten notes.

7:30 PM
to 9:06 PM

Texas Shorts
4 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  'Jack & Holly', directed by Robbie Bourland. A young husband has lost his job and is reluctant to lean on his wife for emotion and finical support.

'Casimiro', directed by Sergio Rabczuk. The story of an illegal immigrant as captured in a letter he writes to his family.

'Alexander Family Farm', directed by Keeley Steenson. Kim Alexander, a chicken farmer, lives in the outskirts of the city of Austin, about as close to the city you can get and still be country. This documentary takes a look at the technical aspects of egg and chicken farming, and Kim's philosophical approach of returning to the land as a way of life.

'Love Sadie', directed by Naiti Gamez. Sadie and her high-school friends struggle to escape the banality of everyday life. Her friends search for approval, and answers about life, from Sadie, the one confidant who can't articulate her own reality.

'Tough Love', directed by Thomas Hackett. A look at the devotion and affection that young men and seek and express through the rituals of boxing.

'Ventilo', directed by Jerin Crandel. An alternate universe where dance replaces language and acceptance means everything.

'Uprush', directed by Kim Hall. When a girl must decide between her best friend and her family, she chooses neither.

'Coffee', directed by Vicky Wight.

'Entre Lineas' (In Between Lines), directed by Maru Buendia-Senties. a story about two friends that live on different sides of the Mexican-American border. As we follow Caroline and Ricardo we get a close look at the lifestyle of Mexican and Mexican-Americans and the universal struggle to maintain and find our own identities in a multicultural society.

7:30 PM
to 7:44 PM

Tough Love
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  'Tough Love' is ostensibly about boxing. Really, though, it's about boys and men looking for love and affection through time-honored rituals. Instead of teaching violence and aggression, the sport shows young men nurturing and tenderness, as each generation passes along its knowledge and appreciation of the sport to the next.

7:30 PM
to 7:38 PM

Uprush
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  On the brink of adulthood, swimming can seem like the most dangerous thing in the world.

7:30 PM
to 7:35 PM

Ventilo
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  A drama about a young woman's journey through a fantasy world of feather fans and beauty. She soon discovers that life is not an open door. There are many ways to fail and only one way through. Acceptance, rejection, fear, and courage all have their place in Ventilo.

10:00 PM
to 11:00 PM

Creative Nonfiction
8 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Ella is a college student, but she's more focused on her pseudo-romance with her dorm mate Chris than on the screenplay she's supposed to be finishing for her Creative Writing class. Reality and fiction are indistinguishable as she tries and fails to differentiate her script from her increasingly awkward social life.

11:30 PM
to 12:54 AM

Lesbian Vampire Killers
44 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Not content to bank on the power of a salacious title, director Phil Claydon's LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS packs as much of a punch as the name implies. Matthew Horne and James Corden, the comedy duo behind the award-winning BBC comedy series GAVIN AND STACEY, are two hapless losers whose idyllic country holiday is shattered by the arrival of an army of thirsty lesbian vampires. James Corden owns the film with a non-stop barrage of rapid-fire tom-foolery and Paul McGann (the 'I' of WITHNAIL AND I) chews every inch of scenery as the vicar with a hearse heavy with undead-slaying devices. With heaping helpings of gratuitous skin, violence and onscreen beer consumption, LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS seems tailor made for a witching hour debut at the Alamo Drafthouse.
 

 

11:00 AM
to 12:12 PM

Alexander the Last
25 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  A sensual and intimate portrait of a young marriage from director Joe Swanberg and producer Noah Baumbach. Focusing on an artistic young couple, Swanberg illuminates the challenges of monogamy amidst myriad sexual and creative temptations. Starring Jess Weixler, Justin Rice, Barlow Jacobs, Josh Hamilton and Jane Adams.

1:30 PM
to 3:04 PM

Over the Hills and Far Away
17 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Over the Hills and Far Away is a film about one family's struggle to find answers to their son's autism. Shot over the course of two years, this film follows the Isaacson family as they journey on horseback across Mongolia from healer to healer, and the amazing healings they found for their son, and for themselves. An inspiration to think outside the box, a travel adventure, an insight into shamanic traditions, the autistic mind, and man's relationship with animals; at its heart, Over the Hills and Far Away is a film about a family that went to the edge of the earth to find a way into their son's life.

4:00 PM
to 5:31 PM

Goodbye Solo
11 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever. Solo is a Senegalese cab driver working to provide a better life for his young family. William is a tough Southern good ol' boy with a lifetime of regrets. One man's American dream is just beginning, while the other's is quickly winding down. But despite their differences, both men soon realize they need each other more than either is willing to admit. Through this unlikely but unforgettable friendship, GOODBYE SOLO deftly explores the passing of a generation as well as the rapidly changing face of America.
Winner of the Venice Film Festival's prestigious FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, 'Goodbye Solo' is the latest film from internationally-acclaimed filmmaker Ramin Bahrani ('Chop Shop,' 'Man Push Cart'). 'Solo' has been hailed as 'A force of nature!' by Roger Ebert. And The New York Times' A.O. Scott says it has 'an uncanny ability to enlarge your perception of the world.'

6:30 PM
to 7:31 PM

It was great, but I was ready to come home.
16 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  'It was great, but I was ready to come home.' follows best friends Cam and Annie as they navigate their way through the mountains and coastal towns of Costa Rica, looking for old comforts amidst new experiences. By turns tender and critical in its approach to its characters, Kris Swanberg's debut feature is an intimate and introspective look at the ebb and flow of female friendship.

9:00 PM
to 10:32 PM

Modern Love Is Automatic
13 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Lorraine Schultz works as a nurse in a doctor's office. Every day she rides the bus to work, listens to her co-workers gossip, comes home. None of it really matters. After finding an issue of Shackled Monthly on the bus, Lorraine is drawn into a secret, seedy world of lonely men, cheap motel rooms, and whips and chains. Meanwhile, her roommate Adrian's dreams of becoming a glamorous fashion model are cut short when the only employment she can find is showcasing mattresses in a strip mall. Will Lorraine's secret life as a dominatrix be revealed? Will Adrian sell enough mattresses to be featured in the big coupon spread? In pursuing their hidden desires and misguided dreams, both girls find their paths crossing in ways they never expected. Yeah. Sure. Okay.
 

 

11:00 AM
to 11:07 AM

Alexander Family Farm
7 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Kim Alexander lives as close to the city as you can get and still be country. The furthest an egg travels from his farm is 30 miles, a distance unheard of in our global food economy. Though a staple in American diets, the origins of our eggs can be a mystery.

11:00 AM
to 11:06 AM

Casimiro
3 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Casimiro is the story of an illegal immigrant living in central Texas. As we follow him throughout his daily routine we realize the difficulties, both physical and emotional he is forced to confront. Casimiro begins his day trying to write an encouraging and positive letter to his family back in his homeland. As the day progresses, we can experience that the American dream Casimiro was after has resulted in a much more difficult journey, one which he has to overcome alone. His solitude and inability to adapt to a strange world ultimately create a distance between Casimiro and his family, one that goes beyond the physical boundaries of countries and cultures.

11:00 AM
to 11:08 AM

Coffee
4 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  COFFEE is about Sara, a woman whose relationship has fallen apart. She is waking up on this particular morning to a disheveled house, half packed in boxes. Going about her morning in a daze, Sara allows innocuous little things to affect her. When it's time for a sincere reaction to her surroundings, she simply feels numb. Coffee might help.

11:00 AM
to 12:30 PM

Entre Lineas (Between the Lines)
3 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  "Entre Lineas" is a story about two friends that live on different sides of the Mexican-American border. As we follow Caroline and Ricardo we get a close look at the lifestyle of Mexican and Mexican-Americans and the universal struggle to maintain and find our own identities in a multicultural society.

11:00 AM
to 12:30 PM

Jack & Holly
1 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Jack and Holly are a young couple who struggle as hard economic times put pressure on their relationship.

11:00 AM
to 11:12 AM

Love, Sadie
1 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Sadie and her high-school friends struggle to escape the banality of everyday life through the intimate exchange of handwritten notes.

11:00 AM
to 12:36 PM

Texas Shorts
8 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  'Jack & Holly', directed by Robbie Bourland. A young husband has lost his job and is reluctant to lean on his wife for emotion and finical support.

'Casimiro', directed by Sergio Rabczuk. The story of an illegal immigrant as captured in a letter he writes to his family.

'Alexander Family Farm', directed by Keeley Steenson. Kim Alexander, a chicken farmer, lives in the outskirts of the city of Austin, about as close to the city you can get and still be country. This documentary takes a look at the technical aspects of egg and chicken farming, and Kim's philosophical approach of returning to the land as a way of life.

'Love Sadie', directed by Naiti Gamez. Sadie and her high-school friends struggle to escape the banality of everyday life. Her friends search for approval, and answers about life, from Sadie, the one confidant who can't articulate her own reality.

'Tough Love', directed by Thomas Hackett. A look at the devotion and affection that young men and seek and express through the rituals of boxing.

'Ventilo', directed by Jerin Crandel. An alternate universe where dance replaces language and acceptance means everything.

'Uprush', directed by Kim Hall. When a girl must decide between her best friend and her family, she chooses neither.

'Coffee', directed by Vicky Wight.

'Entre Lineas' (In Between Lines), directed by Maru Buendia-Senties. a story about two friends that live on different sides of the Mexican-American border. As we follow Caroline and Ricardo we get a close look at the lifestyle of Mexican and Mexican-Americans and the universal struggle to maintain and find our own identities in a multicultural society.

11:00 AM
to 11:14 AM

Tough Love
2 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  'Tough Love' is ostensibly about boxing. Really, though, it's about boys and men looking for love and affection through time-honored rituals. Instead of teaching violence and aggression, the sport shows young men nurturing and tenderness, as each generation passes along its knowledge and appreciation of the sport to the next.

11:00 AM
to 11:08 AM

Uprush
1 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  On the brink of adulthood, swimming can seem like the most dangerous thing in the world.

11:00 AM
to 11:05 AM

Ventilo
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  A drama about a young woman's journey through a fantasy world of feather fans and beauty. She soon discovers that life is not an open door. There are many ways to fail and only one way through. Acceptance, rejection, fear, and courage all have their place in Ventilo.

1:30 PM
to 2:30 PM

Creative Nonfiction
14 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Ella is a college student, but she's more focused on her pseudo-romance with her dorm mate Chris than on the screenplay she's supposed to be finishing for her Creative Writing class. Reality and fiction are indistinguishable as she tries and fails to differentiate her script from her increasingly awkward social life.

4:00 PM
to 5:45 PM

Awaydays
10 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Paul Carty is 19, good-looking, funny, clever Ð and bored out of his mind. His mother died a year ago. He lives in middle class suburbia with his silently grieving father and feisty young sister, Molly. Carty works as a junior civil servant and spends all his wages on clubs, records, football and gigs. It's at a Bunnymen gig that he meets Elvis. Elvis changes everything.
He's part of a gang called The Pack. The Pack are notorious; they dress in a cultish, almost effeminate style that's at odds with the boneheads and bootboys they fight against. They have androgynous wedge haircuts worn with Fred Perry shirts, Lois jeans and Adidas Forest Hills training shoes. For as long as he has been going to football, Carty has been fascinated by The Pack. Now Elvis seems to be offering him a way in.
Except he isn't. For all that Carty lionises The Pack, Elvis dilutes his idealism. He warns Carty that these lads are nobodies. Elvis is a council estate romantic, a dreamer with big plans about escaping to Berlin, New York, anywhereÉ Anywhere, so long as Carty comes with him. He's been waiting all his life for someone like Carty, someone he can talk with and relate to about art, music, poetry...suicide. They love the same bands - Magazine, Joy Division, Wire - and think the same way; or so Elvis wants to believe. He's smitten with his new mate and plans the big journeys they'll make together.
But Carty soon gets to know the 'other' Elvis - moody, fatalistic and possessive. He throws as many obstacles as he can in Carty's path, whenever he fears he's losing him. Elvis is all too well aware how badly Carty craves the Pack lifestyle, and tries to keep him away - but in spite of all his warnings, Carty's on a collision course, plunging deeper into their dark and vicious world. Elvis can see how Carty's fascination is blinding him, yet he's powerless to pull him back from the brink. Once he's been on his first awayday and sampled the buzz of random violence, Carty just wants more, more, more...
But Carty is never truly accepted by the gang. He's there on sufferance, simply because his sponsor, the psychotic yet enigmatic Elvis is so revered. Their conflict reaches its crisis as Carty tries harder and harder to impress the wild boys, while Elvis sinks deeper into paranoia and jealousy. Something has to break.

7:00 PM
to 8:25 PM

Four Boxes
10 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Trevor Grainger, Amber Croft and Rob Rankrus run Go Time Liquidators Ð an ambulance-chasing eBay auction business. In a dead man's destroyed suburban house they start watching a bookmarked surveillance-cam website called fourboxes.tv. If fourboxes.tv isn't just more internet BS, then a crazed creep they call Havoc is building enough bombs to, like, kill everybody.

9:30 PM
to 11:19 PM

Berlin Calling
10 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Berlin electro composer Martin (Paul Kalkbrenner), called DJ Ickarus, is touring the dance clubs of the world with his manager and girlfriend Mathilde (Rita Lengyel). They are about to release their biggest album to date. But when Ickarus gets high on drugs after a gig and is taken to a Berlin psychiatric clinic, all of their plans go awry. A tragicomedy set in today's Berlin.
 

 

11:30 AM
to 11:34 AM

A Hospital Bathroom
2 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Two strangers have a short and terrible conversation in a hospital bathroom.

11:30 AM
to 11:34 AM

Cloudburst
1 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  In hopes that someone will find the tape, a passionate girl narrates the filming of her tornado suicide.

11:30 AM
to 11:35 AM

Fatal Fortune Cookie
1 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  After receiving a fortune cookie unlike any other, Sam finds himself dreading his own death by a gift he will receive the following day. "Fatal Fortune Cookie" will take you on a nail-biting ride with an ending that will leave you speechless.

11:30 AM
to 11:32 AM

Fresh Fruit
2 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  'Fresh Fruit' is about the secret lives of fruit living in a refrigerator. An apple and a pear discuss topics ranging from the end of the world to the meaning of existence. However, their secret lives are destroyed when interrupted by a hungry human.

11:30 AM
to 11:32 AM

Making Perfect
1 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  A struggling beginner musician finds inspiration from his teacher.

11:30 AM
to 1:00 PM

Mirror
1 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  "Mirror" tells the story of Sadri who, while visiting a Middle Eastern city, enters a shop filled with rugs, trinkets, and other interesting items for sale. He stumbles across a mirror which becomes magical. He finds himself dragged through the mirror to an alternate world of monsters, where curiosity puts him in a bad situation.

11:30 AM
to 11:35 AM

Miss Tilford
1 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Milton, a geeky high school student obtains a magical Aztec idol that grants him three wishes. He bases all wishes on his desire for his hot teacher, Miss Tilford. She notices him. She kisses him. But his final wish is more than final.

11:30 AM
to 11:34 AM

One More Chance
1 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Sarah has had enough of James. He's more interested in hanging out with his friends and playing video games than spending time with her. When she tells him she wants to break up, he talks her into giving him one more chance...or so he thinks.

11:30 AM
to 1:00 PM

Performance Evaluation
2 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  After a surprising end to his relationship with his girlfriend, Chris struggles to find the reasoning in her actions. In Performance Evaluation, you learn that just about anything can be professional.

11:30 AM
to 11:34 AM

11:30 AM
to 11:31 AM

Save The Arts
2 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  This 60 second public service announcement covers what the true meaning of art is to students from various areas. Their passion for the arts is powerful and cannot be stopped. "Without art, we're lost"

11:30 AM
to 12:40 PM

Texas High School Shorts
6 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  'Cloudburst'Director: John Gordon
'Fatal Fortune Cookie'Director: Garrett Sullivan
'One More Chance'Mitch Collier
'Miss Tilford'Director: Beck Olp and Bryan Lawson
'Mirror' Director: Rachel Racanelli
'Zach'Director: Whitney Steele
'The Last Pageant'Director: Jason Broussard
'Save the Arts'Director: Nicole Prian
'Puppy Love'Director: Joseph Walsh
'Making Perfect'Director: Alan Michnoff
'A Hospital Bathroom'Director: Miguel Johnson
'Fresh Fruit'Director: Edward Kelley
'The Transcendence of Gabriel'Director: Sam Cooke
'Performance Evaluation'Director: Breannah Gibson
'When Life Gives You Lemons'Director: Jordan Haro
'Umbrella'Director: Ryan Kline
'Unearthed'Director: Adrian Scarborough

11:30 AM
to 11:35 AM

The Last Pageant
1 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  As Celina Masterson prepares for her final pageant, five competitors attempt to hide internal and external scars that may prevent the all important victory. As the competitive brutality intensifies from all five angles, Celina's past catches up with her. But it's her last laugh and her final cut that ends it all. Forever.

11:30 AM
to 11:35 AM

The Transcendence of Gabriel
1 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Gabriel is both an outcast of his high school and of society as a whole who wants nothing more out of life than to be a duck. He embarks on a quest to transcend the boundaries of human existence by imitating what he sees as "his own kind". The film is about the isolation and compromise that comes with the realization of an unattainable dream.

11:30 AM
to 11:35 AM

Umbrella
1 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  A lonely teacher finds love with the help of an umbrella.This is the first festival screening of the film.

11:30 AM
to 11:34 AM

Unearthed
1 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  An excavation team unearths an unusual canine lupus species which is well-preserved. Spirits are high until things... and people begin to go missing.

11:30 AM
to 11:32 AM

When Life Gives You Lemons
2 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  A boy (Thost) pursues his self-proclaimed true love (Lewin) only to face rejection. All the while, a shy girl (Ramsdell) watches the boy with a deep infatuation for him. It is only after he learns the hard way, the boy discovers what really is "true love".

11:30 AM
to 11:35 AM

Zach
1 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Do you remember that kid in high school that knew everyone, and did everything; well that's Zach. He's a cool guy, everyone loves him and so will you. Experience the life of Zach and his fun teenage adventures. But the mystery of Zach will always live.

2:00 PM
to 3:11 PM

Monsters From The Id
13 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  The 1950's was an idealistic time in American History. It was also the Atomic Age where new technology promised to both save humanity as well as destroy it. All of these factors gave birth to the most prolific genres in film history, 1950's Sci-Fi Cinema. More then just little green men, 50's Sci-fi Cinema provided inspiration for the generation who achieved one of the greatest accomplishments of mankind; Spaceflight. Monsters From The Id weaves the intersecting themes of over 30 films in order to tell the untold story of the Modern Scientist and his role in inspiring a nation. The film continues to explore the psychological and cultural impact of 50's Sci-Fi cinema in America and asks, 'where is science inspiration found today?'

5:00 PM
to 6:14 PM

Know Your Mushrooms
23 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  From the award-winning director of COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL, GRASS, GO FURTHER and a host of paradigm-shifting films reappraising the backwaters of popular culture, Ron Mann investigates the miraculous, near-secret world of fungi with his newest piece of cinema, KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS.

7:15 PM
to 8:47 PM

Modern Love Is Automatic
10 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  Lorraine Schultz works as a nurse in a doctor's office. Every day she rides the bus to work, listens to her co-workers gossip, comes home. None of it really matters. After finding an issue of Shackled Monthly on the bus, Lorraine is drawn into a secret, seedy world of lonely men, cheap motel rooms, and whips and chains. Meanwhile, her roommate Adrian's dreams of becoming a glamorous fashion model are cut short when the only employment she can find is showcasing mattresses in a strip mall. Will Lorraine's secret life as a dominatrix be revealed? Will Adrian sell enough mattresses to be featured in the big coupon spread? In pursuing their hidden desires and misguided dreams, both girls find their paths crossing in ways they never expected. Yeah. Sure. Okay.

10:00 PM
to 11:30 PM

Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
10 Attendees
Location Alamo Lamar 2
About  A vibrant, soulful and in-depth look at one of the world s most popular and inspiring musicians, Senegalese hero Youssou Ndour, YOUSSOU NDOUR: I BRING WHAT I LOVE was shot over two years and across three continents. Following the Grammy-winning African icon as he releases his most ambitious album, EGYPT, a best-selling record in which, for the first time, Ndour sings about Islam. Upon release in Senegal, the album was considered blasphemous, bringing Ndour, perhaps the most popular Muslim artist in the world, face to face with the contradictions of his own religion.